From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 17:24:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Post-Office.UH.EDU (Post-Office.UH.EDU [129.7.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1CD14EFB for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zdenko@CS.UH.EDU) Received: from CS.UH.EDU (zeus.cs.uh.edu [129.7.192.1]) by Post-Office.UH.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #40812) with SMTP id <0FJR00KL0VSCRS@Post-Office.UH.EDU> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 19:24:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from blackbird.CS.UH.EDU by CS.UH.EDU (COSC/UH-zeus) id AA04352; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 19:24:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: by blackbird.CS.UH.EDU (4.1/UH-4.1) id AA01922; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 19:24:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 19:24:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Zdenko Tomasic Subject: Re: Some serious gripes about `fdisk' and also `booteasy'. In-reply-to: <6399.940144472@monkeys.com> To: rfg@monkeys.com Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: zdenko@CS.UH.EDU Message-id: <9910180024.AA04352@CS.UH.EDU> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I noticed that FBSD fdisk sometimes does not reserve the whole track for the boot block area (i,e, before 1st partition), while DOS fdisk does. This apparently screws up track/cyclinder boundaries for the rest of partitions and various stranges errors can ensue in different OSes. I don't know if that is easily fixable or not, but a fix is certainly very desirable. ZT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message